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BEDFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWSLETTER September 2019 e-mail: [email protected] telephone: (540) 586-5284 fax: (540) 586-5284 Bedford Awakening September 8-11, 7pm, at the Bedford Farmer’s Market The biggest event of Bedford Presbyterian’s 175th anniversary celebration and also the one we are hoping will be a spiritual gift for the entire Bedford community is the upcoming “Bedford Awakening.” Everyone is invited to join together with us at the Farmer’s Market, Sunday through Wednesday, September 8-11, at 7:00 pm each evening (rain location at Community Center.) No admission will be charged, but we will collect a free-will offering for Bedford’s First Responders on Wednesday night in honor of those who rushed into harm’s way on September 11, 2001 in New York City and Washington, D.C. Every evening will be opened and closed by a different area pastor leading us in prayer. The program will also include worship and praise music led by Bill Rutledge. He will be accompanied by a multi-church praise team. There should be plenty of seating for everyone, but feel free to bring your own lawn chair as well. Our speaker is Rev. Rick Astle (RickAstle.Com). Rick’s passion is spiritual renewal. Each evening will focus on a different aspect of what it means to be awakened to a richer and more meaningful way of life through the transformational presence and power of God. Sunday night will focus on what it means to experience a “Prayer Awakening;” Monday night a “Moral Awakening;” Tuesday night a “Spiritual Awakening;” and Wednesday night a “National Awakening.” There will also be two seminars, free and open to the public, at Bedford Presbyterian Church, on Monday, September 8, and Tuesday, September 9. Both will last from 10 am until 12 noon. Monday’s theme will be for anyone interested in learning more about “ How You Can Pray Like Jesus.” Tuesday’s seminar will be pointed toward pastors and church staff: How to Have Powerful Church Prayer Meetings.” Please join us in praying for this time of spiritual renewal and in making plans to attend; also be sure to invite friends and family. Let us join together in asking the Lord to move in a mighty way among His people throughout Bedford County. Below is a partial listing of Churches joining together in participation with the Bedford Awakening: Bedford Ministerial Association, Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, Resurrection Catholic Church(Moneta), Villamont Presbyterian Church, Cool Spring Presbyterian Church, Bedford Presbyterian Church, Peaks Presbyterian Church, Washington Street Baptist Church, Lovely Zion Baptist Church, Liberty Cowboy Church, Liberty Baptist Church, Bedford Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Bedford Church of God, Prayer Outreach Assembly, Epworth United Methodist Church, Hickory Grove United Methodist Church, Wilson’s United Methodist Church, Word of Life Evangelical Church and Bedford Lutheran Church. Rev. Bill Rutledge Rev. Rick Astle

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BEDFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

NEWSLETTER

September 2019

e-mail: [email protected] telephone: (540) 586-5284

fax: (540) 586-5284

Bedford Awakening September 8-11, 7pm, at the Bedford Farmer’s Market

The biggest event of Bedford Presbyterian’s 175th anniversary celebration and also the one we are hoping will be a spiritual gift for the entire Bedford community is the upcoming “Bedford Awakening.” Everyone is invited to join together with us at the Farmer’s Market, Sunday through Wednesday, September 8-11, at 7:00 pm each evening (rain location at Community Center.) No admission will be charged, but we will collect a free-will offering for Bedford’s First Responders on Wednesday night in honor of those who rushed into harm’s way on September 11, 2001 in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Every evening will be opened and closed by a different area pastor leading us in prayer. The program will also include worship and praise music led by Bill Rutledge. He will be accompanied by a multi-church praise team. There should be plenty of seating for everyone, but feel free to bring your own lawn chair as well.

Our speaker is Rev. Rick Astle (RickAstle.Com). Rick’s passion is spiritual renewal. Each evening will focus on a different aspect of what it means to be awakened to a richer and more meaningful way of life through the transformational presence and power of God. Sunday night will focus on what it means to experience a “Prayer Awakening;” Monday night a “Moral Awakening;” Tuesday night a “Spiritual Awakening;” and Wednesday night a “National Awakening.”

There will also be two seminars, free and open to the public, at Bedford Presbyterian Church, on Monday, September 8, and Tuesday, September 9. Both will last from 10 am until 12 noon. Monday’s theme will be for anyone interested in learning more about “How You Can Pray Like Jesus.” Tuesday’s seminar will be pointed toward pastors and church staff: “How to Have Powerful Church Prayer Meetings.”

Please join us in praying for this time of spiritual renewal and in making plans to attend; also be sure to invite friends and family. Let us join together in asking the Lord to move in a mighty way among His people throughout Bedford County.

Below is a partial listing of Churches joining together in participation with the Bedford Awakening: Bedford Ministerial Association, Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, Resurrection Catholic Church(Moneta), Villamont Presbyterian Church, Cool Spring Presbyterian Church, Bedford Presbyterian Church, Peaks Presbyterian Church, Washington Street Baptist Church, Lovely Zion Baptist Church, Liberty Cowboy Church, Liberty Baptist Church, Bedford Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Bedford Church of God, Prayer Outreach Assembly, Epworth United Methodist Church, Hickory Grove United Methodist Church, Wilson’s United Methodist Church, Word of Life Evangelical Church and Bedford Lutheran Church.

Rev. Bill Rutledge

Rev. Rick Astle

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All THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE

Beginning with Genesis: From Adam to Abraham.

September 15th Sunday’s sermon at Bedford Presbyterian will start us out on a jour-ney from the front of our Bible all the way to the back. Beginning with God’s declara-tion “let there be light…,” we will reexamine all of the Bible’s stories in the order that they are told, not only for what happened but also for the lessons that we should draw from them. That is the reason these stories were included in our scriptures to begin with.

Hebrew parents taught their children lessons about God’s ways and wisdom in a story format; they sat around the evening fire learning a bit of national history along with helping them figure out the needed wisdom so as not to repeat their ancestor’s follies. Let us do the same.

Of course we will be looking into these stories from a much more mature viewpoint – more than what you learned in Sunday School. The nice thing is that our youth will be learning the same stories – at their age-appropriate level – in Children’s Church, so you can discuss these stories with them over the dinner table.

With appropriate breaks for the holidays, we will spend most of this winter in the Book of Genesis going from Adam to Abraham. While we will never learn (this side of glory) whether or not Adam had a navel, we will learn why Genesis includes three versions of the creation story. I am very excited about beginning this Biblical journey with you and I hope you are as well! Below is a tentative schedule of topics taking us up to Thanksgiv-ing.

September 15: Genesis 1:1 In the Beginning God!

Something More on Tuesdays: Where was God Before the Beginning?

September 22 Genesis 1:1-31 Something from Nothing in 7 days!

Something More on Tuesdays: Theories of Creation Versus Theories of Evolution

September 29 Genesis 2:1-3 The First Sabbath

Something More on Tuesdays: How to restore a 21st century Sabbath.

October 6 175th Homecoming & Communion

Previous Pastors will lead worship. Richard Boyce will bring a special message

October 13 Genesis 2:4-15 Garden Life … As it Was Always Meant To Be

Something More on Tuesdays: Appropriately radical Christian environmentalism

October 20 (John on study leave, Rev. WALTER MANN in pulpit)

NO MID-WEEK

October 27 (John on vacation: Rev. ROBERT McRAE in pulpit)

NO MID-WEEK

November 3 All Saints Day & Communion (Daylight savings time ends)

175th Finale Message: Where Do We Go From Here?

Something More on Tuesdays: Looking at BPC’s future Goals

November 10 Genesis 2:7-17 The First Job, The First Contract

Something More on Tuesdays: A STEWARD’S mentality of our bodies, lives, and work

November 17 Genesis 2:8-25 Adam, Meet Eve, You Were Made For Each Other

Something More on Tuesdays: Biblical versus cultural views on marriage & family

November 24 Harvest Home- Thanksgiving theme

NO MID-WEEK

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September 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 10 am Service

Communion

Prayer Time

2 Labor Day-

office closed

Quilters,6 pm

3 4 Joyful Noise,

6:15 pm

Choir, 7 pm

5 Purl Jam,

7 pm

6 Office

closed

7

8 10 am Service

5 ¢ a meal

Prayer Time

REVIVAL, 7 pm

9

Shepherds’

Table

Quilters,6 pm

REVIVAL

7pm

10

REVIVAL

7pm

11

Joyful Noise,

6:15 pm

REVIVAL

7pm

12 Purl Jam,

7 pm

13 Office

closed

14 Quilters

15

10 am Service

Prayer Time

Session

16 Quilters, 6 pm

17 Something

More,

4:30 pm.

18 Joyful Noise,

6:15 pm

Choir, 7 pm

19 Purl Jam,

7 pm

20 Office

closed

21 MOPS

22

10 am Service

Prayer Time

23

Quilters, 6 pm

24

Something

More,

4:30 pm

25 Joyful Noise,

6:15 pm

Choir, 7 pm

26 Purl Jam,

7 pm

27 Office

Closed

28

29

10 am Service

Prayer Time

30 Quilters, 6 pm

112 Center Street

Monday- Scouts 6:30 pm , Tuesday- Narcotics Anonymous , 12 pm, Wednesday- Narcotics Anonymous , 8 pm

Sundays: Narcotics Anonymous 6 pm

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Abbott: Joyce

Barefoot: Shawn (nephew)

Barnes: Jane (friend)

Troy- (friend)

Shannon Sledd- (niece)

Benton: Taffy Mays (friend)

Patti Burr- Wilson- (former member)

Blair: James Thorne

Katy Neal

Chryssikos: Dorothy Keener

Phillip-(son)

Linda Arendt (neighbor)

Citty: Raymond

Clark: David

Cram: Winslow’s-(friends of Sally’s)

Janice Campbell (friend)

Becky Johnson (friend)

DeWitt: Shirley Magann- (friend of family)

Gerald

Diddams: Betty Lou- (sister-in-law)

Rich- (son)

Dills: Kathy

Ashley Schley

Eagler: Janet

Fedele: Albert Gardill (Jana’s father)

Foster: Thomasine Davis -(aunt)

Ron Case- (brother-in-law)

Sue- (sister)

Goodman: Barry Owen-(friend)

Tracey- (daughter)

Randall Sales

Harris: Judy

Heinrich: Steven - (grandson)

Hopkins: Dorinda

Kuhn- Kibbey: Nancy Milton-(friend)

Rachel Rutledge- (granddaughter) Dot Grandson

Mauser: Joyce Reese- (friend)

Steven-(son’s boss)

McManis: Charlotte

Meyers: Donnie Chrisman (godson’s brother)

Phil- (Scott’s brother-in-law)

Morris: All first responders and police officers and

forensic scientists

Aaron Reifsnyder- (daughters friend)

Ann Howard (friend)

Richwine; Margo (daughter-in-law's mother)

Rutledge: Margo

Family of Ron Smith

Salley: John Solon-(Betty’s brother)

Claire (Betty’s niece)

Saunders: Colin Bridges- (grandson- 12yr old)

Scott- (son-in-law)

Ronnie

Saunders: Gloria & family

Scheurer: Stephanie Hale- (friend of Sandy’s)

Schubert: Gerda & Ed

Stetson: Dave’s Boss’ wife

Stevens: Jackie Landis

Greg Fulton- (friend)

Billy Gray- (friend)

Toney: Karen Hyde- (friend)

Mike Gillespie- (friend)

Judy Miller (cousin’s wife)

Weeks: Mary Lohmeyer-(friend)

Wilkerson: Ricky Wilkerson-(Dan’s cousin)

Prayers for those affected by floods and wildfires

Prayers for mass shootings victims

Persecuted Christians

“This, then, is how you should pray: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us

our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ (Matthew 6:9-13)

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September Birthdays

Bill Yodis 2

Polly Turner 3

James Harris 12

Sandy Scheurer 12

Deanna Rutledge 16

Dick Kibbey 17

Christine Riley 18

Harold Neal 19

Barbara Saunders 20

Dick Diddams 21

Sydney Dills 24

Ron Morris 24

Morgann Dills 25

Jay Barnes 29

September Anniversaries

Jay & Eunice Barnes 11

Gerald & Tammy DeWitt 19 In the Military

Nick Stetson- Navy

Stateside

Ben Daniel- Army

Deployed- Iraq

Matthew McManis- Marine

Quantico

Joy Byrne- Army

Deployed- Afghanistan

Land of the Free,

Because of the Brave

Bedford County Nursing Home

Betty Abbott- Room 114

Elks Home – 931 Ashland Ave.

Anna Latimer, Room B-208

Frankie Latimer, Room H-205

Frank & Tinkie Avery, Apt E-202

Quarry Hill

Anne Tiedeman

30 Community Dr., #312

Camden, ME 04843

Bentley Commons

Pat Clarke

Bentley Commons,

1604 Graves Mill Rd. Room 210

Lynchburg, VA 24502

In Tennessee

Polly Turner

C/O Steve Turner

12 Riverside Dr.

Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Something More is taking a break for the

month of August. We will resume September 17th (Tuesdays 4:30-6p.) – after the revival –

and beginning with the book of Genesis. Together we will dive into “All the Stories in the Bible, ”

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S e pt e m b e r 2 019 N ews l et t e r

175th Anniversary Merchandise Market

The Bedford Presbyterian commemorative plates have arrived. Based on a modern portrait of the church by Lori Stetson, you can admire them in the church office.

Because these plates came without a gold rim, they are selling for $25.00. We are also taking orders until Homecoming in October for a gold rimmed version at $35.00. They should arrive in November. If you wish to order a gold rimmed version of the plate, please fill out a form in the office. As soon as we get enough orders, we will go ahead and process it, so you might get your plates earlier.

We still have 175th t-shirts and coffee mugs to sell. These items are available in the office now:

T-Shirts (Short Sleeve)

2- medium @ $10 each

2- large @ $10 each

3- XL @ $10 each

3- XXL @ $12 each

Mugs @ $8 each

Plates @ $25 each

August Clerk’s Corner Did you see it? John Salley had a big article on Spiritual Awakening published in the Bulletin. Thanks for your help: John Smith and John Salley closed two top shutters on the eastern side of the sanctuary. Get them while they’re hot! Commemorative plates and other 175th remembrances are still on sale in the

office. Membership is now 129. This includes the transfer of Harvey and Weebie Clarke on July 21 and the death

of Dick Fowler on July 18. Enjoy the introit during worship service. Use it as a time to prepare our hearts and minds for worship in the

worship leader script. Survey results show several people expressing interest in an adult Sunday School class held before church

services. Look for details coming soon! A good problem to have: the youth will continue to meet at the church, but if transportation can’t be worked

out with the schools, additional car poolers will be needed to handle the large group. The BPC parking lot sign was installed by John Blair and John Salley. Did you notice? John Blair filled some sanctuary holes as well as a hole in the driveway. Act of God? The alarm system was disabled by lightning and has been replaced, with the addition of a

surge protector provided at no cost. Paying for comfort: both sanctuary heat pumps stopped working and both were replaced at the same time

by Witt Mechanical. The Fellowship Committee has been busy! Receptions were held after the organ recital on July 14 as well

as on closing night of the historical drama on August 4. Organ recital attendance was 143. Attendance at the Historical Drama was 97 on Saturday night and 83 for Sunday night. Bill Mitchell will de-

velop a DVD of the performance. Listen up! The fall revival will be advertised on Journey, Spirit-FM and the Oldies radio stations. Cottage prayer meetings will be held at three locations to support the revival. Ministers and choirs from the community will be asked to participate in the fall revival. Look for them: 50 copies of the new pictorial directory are currently in production.